Virtual reality is already making its presence felt in the movie business, but it’s about to take root in a big way. The Sundance Film Festival has revealed that nine of the 13 New Frontier art installations at its 2015 event will use virtual reality…
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Samsung’s virtual reality headset, Gear VR: what you need to know
Samsung’s virtual reality headset, dubbed “Gear VR,” is available for purchase as of today. For those not following the last three years of virtual reality’s return from obscurity, today is a big day: Gear VR is the first virtual reality headset avai…
The ‘mouse’ and its many mutations
Since its inception in the mid-’60s, the “mouse,” as it came to be known, has morphed and mutated into a diverse assortment of styles to accommodate efficiency, ergonomics and portability. In this week’s Rewind we surf through the history of the devi…
Inhabitat’s Week in Green: stain-proof shirts, eco-friendly gifts and the top six uses for urine
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. For many, the holidays are a time to spend lots of money on things that aren’t so great for the environme…
Watch the PlayStation Experience 2014 keynote right here!
Couldn’t make it to Las Vegas this weekend to check out the first PlayStation Experience? Well, we’ve got you covered with a livestream of the event right after the break. If the official image above is any indication, we can expect to hear quite a b…
CBS and Dish reach TV deal that includes Showtime streaming
That was fast. Just half a day after CBS yanked its programming from Dish Network in some large cities, the two companies have reached a deal that puts those channels back in action. They’re not revealing the financial side of things, but it’s appare…
Now Boarding ‘Mint’: JetBlue’s take on the first class experience
When JetBlue took flight in 2000, the company aimed to “bring humanity back to air travel.” The team started by ordering a bunch of new Airbus A320 aircraft, filling them with comfy leather seats (and enough legroom), serving unlimited free snacks an…
Target can’t dodge lawsuits from banks after huge data breach
When Target was, well, targeted by hackers in search of customer payment information late last year, legal backlash from banks was probably one of the last things the company’s brass was worried about. They’ve got to be singing a different tune now, …
‘Wolfenstein’ remake adds cartoon violence, ridiculous physics
HD remakes are nothing new in the world of video games these days, but from the looks of it Super Wolfenstein HD isn’t your typical revamp. The shooter that started it all is a bit more destructible now, and, as Kotaku notes, it bears more than a pas…
Barnes & Noble ends its Nook partnership with Microsoft
For a long while, it looked as if Microsoft and Barnes & Noble would become more than just firm friends. The pair had been entangled in a similar partnership that the software giant had with Nokia, throwing $300 million to support the ailing booksell…
YotaPhone 2 review: niche and expensive, but seriously cool
YotaPhone was inarguably one of the quirkiest smartphones released last year, with not one, but two displays. This curious marriage of LCD and E Ink was certainly a manufacturing achievement, but limited uses for the secondary screen meant it simply …
Google now lets you prove your humanity with a single click
There’s something just a little insulting about having to prove your humanity to some website by pecking out some distorted words, but Google’s rolling out a new, less tedious way for web developers to tell if you’ve got blood or oil pumping through …
Pandora’s revamped radio apps make it easier to personalize your tunes
Take a look at Pandora’s current app interface and you’ll notice that personalization (outside of the signature thumb buttons) takes a back seat — it’s relatively hard to get just the right mix of artists in your radio stream. That shouldn’t be a pr…
Hexoskin’s smart shirt feels nice, but can’t tell a step from a curl
History is littered with stories of companies that share a deep rivalry, yet are based a stone’s throw away from each other. For instance, the drive between Apple’s and Google’s respective headquarters is less than 15 minutes; Adidas and Puma have fa…
How would you change the Razer Blade (14-inch, 2013)?
Like its charismatic CEO, Razer is a company that’s always on the go. Less than six months after we reviewed the 2013 Razer Blade, it’d been replaced with a fourth-generation edition. When our Sean Buckley reviewed the hardware, he found that it was …